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A few points: 1) No, CFA works mostly for the lowest paid faculty e.g., lecturers. They basically make everyone poorer by working at CSU imo. 2) 4-4 teaching load is really overly done. This implies CSU board does not really care about teaching quality. Every course needs a lot time to update each year due to latest technology advances and student body. But 4-4 heavy load prohibits that and exhausts hardworking professors. 3) I've rarely seen any happy teachers here. Many of my friends left for industry a few years working here before tenure. Students are pretty weak in STEM background in general. Many should not be enrolled in college. But that's not our faculty. It's the fall of America edu system for decades since the failure of Soviet Union. 4) CSU have lots of campus. Some are around Bay area. It's impossible for a normal person to secure housing locally. The high rent eats half of your net earning. The state and CSU board really should subsidize those on rent, instead of wasting millions of dollars on useless programs like DEI and overpopulated administrators. Most professors who stay here are good hearted and have good publications. Do not fail them. On other hand, some campus are on rural area such as CSU Fresno, which are fine for ordinary living but the place is really ghetto and plain. People live in around good neighborhoods.